In making the claim, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Stu Jones, said that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government “has sunk to a new level of depravity” with the support of Russia and Iran.

The Trump administration is accusing the Syrian government carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the dead bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital.
The State Department says about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya (Said-nay-ah) military prison, about 45 minutes from Damascus. It says the